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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 14h

like please, you're dropping hints—don't get sad when they're picked up

*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 14h

watching a character a) decide their partner is breaking up with them (they're not) & b) try to demonstrate how cool they are with it by passive aggressively sending them real estate listings & then c) MOPE ABOUT HOW DISTANT THEY'RE BEING

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 23h

on the one hand, that man & that cohort have been playing hockey for almost twenty years. on the other hand...[REDACTED].

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 23h

saw a young guns commemorative plaque at capitol one* today & nearly got taken out by a freight train of conflicting nostalgia *likely place for it to be

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

no one is writing books* about sports in my city. no one is even mentioning my city in books about sports except very occasionally as a team they reluctantly play slash decimate slash tragically lose to to illustrate just how bad their slump is in the middle of road trips. *romance novels

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

watching these people make "cookies" on the bake off & feeling like i've never seen the divide between our two nations so starkly before

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TIL that anderson cooper & timothy olyphant are cousins on THE VANDERBILT SIDE

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

listening to the wendy's emo album (and other brand new sentences in the english language) & it's so deliciously & deliberately derivative while being totally sincere (on the part of the performers) i'm having a blast

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

three is for stuff i liked, four is for stuff i really liked, five is for stuff that keeps me thinking about it even when it's over

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

pre-emptively explaining myself like "no, see, I use it like a record for ME, each one has a meaning" when confronted with my habit of giving two stars to literally anything that asks for ratings because "what? it was okay! i learned some stuff!" is apparently not the way it's generally used

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is this a younger writer thing? did we lose something when television shows stopped dropping everything to be about social issues for one episode and one episode only? bc it's jarring as hell

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i love that books are starting to reflect the ideal of a fully accepting & understanding society but i cannot stop the knee-jerk cringe at what comes across as, like, "very special episode" speak instead of how real people talk

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"the older man" may i remind you, AGAIN, that he is a vampire. they're all "older men".

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SOMETIMES, OKAY, there's something so romantic about spite

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

me, if i were a sportsballer: i'm going to retire my rival™️: /breaks my record me: ...perhaps one more game

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WHOSE walk up music is the opening riff of I WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES?? i have several questions

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

everything is black sails if you squint hard enough

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

bc i generally don't read or care for organized crime fiction, this is how i've been keeping their made-up jobs straight: boss > captain > flint consigliere > quartermaster > silver underboss > master / bosun > de groot caporegime > first mate > gates / billy soldiers > mate associates > able seamen

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

like i understand that he's all mysterious and european and maybe a vampire, but he's also pretty clearly running some kind of racket

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this character: i wonder what kind of person my new boss is me: dude, he just told you to talk to his consigliere, you don't have to wonder

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

sometimes you have to pick up on the absurd (how to even TAG that) to keep yourself from screaming to death in anger

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

watching LWTWJO, weeping over being late to nominating henrietta & valentina for yuletide

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i've read some real bangers in the last month! but the words to describe them will not flow.

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

really falling down on my (made-up) job of Saying Something about the books i've read

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yelling "VIKING IS A JOB" at the cover copy of a book that cannot hear me & will never change

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the whole POINT of neko atsume is that you set it up & it runs itself

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

me: what's a game like neko atsume the internet: there's this, but you've to do this, and that, and the other— me: so it's nothing like it at all

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we also almost had a small riot over the dog

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

turned on the first episode of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE (the new one) during dinner & the number of times i had to remind myself that this is a show for children—

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is a thing entirely for stats nerds & people who were going to watch the games anyway, two things i am not

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

bullied into fantasy sports, participating in the only way i know how: letting whoever it was i was matched with tell me how i did

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

man nearly lost himself a war because he refused to consider men who didn't look like him people

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

watching ken burns' AMERICAN REVOLUTION in class when we finish early & the care they take to really sit with the fact that ol' g. dubs was a giant racist is just—magnifique

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i'm so sorry—that's infuriating on several levels, including the fact that i'm a SE teacher & we tell parents & teachers all the time that attendance isn't & can't be part of the iep, like! my department chair would strike that down before it even made it to the meeting if i tried to propose that.

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this & knowing when to complain & who to do it with are key skills

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

there is a tone of voice that i use with some of my students that is, like, aggressively calm & considered & i perfected it while moving furniture

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this book is seventeen hours long & maybe four hours of it has actually been about the thing it said it was about

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

never a good sign when i start calculating how much actual time* i have left in an audiobook in an anticipatory way (*i listen at 2.1x speed)

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

love it when they let you just sit with the crowd noise after a big hit, really let you feel the space even though you're not there

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every time it happens—especially in the optimistic ones where every couple is some form of out—i'm on book six or whatever & asking myself HOW no one has noticed or commented on this

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the core ask, the biggest suspension of disbelief for a majority of the sports romance series i've been reading, is that somehow—SOMEGODDAMNHOW—a front office managed to field—to sIGN—an entire team without realizing every single one of them was some form of queer

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I never watched LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, just reread the books incessantly & ms ingalls wilder taught me early & completely that leeches are a hard no from me, dog

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this movie had someone's head get shit and then explode & the thing i am hiding behind a pillow from & shuddering at the thought of is LEECHES

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

cover copy: this book is about cade and juan carlos— me: who the inside of the book: a.k.a. thompson and martínez, who you have known for five whole books now

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the way these books keep the new couples a mystery because no one ever uses anyone's first name until it's their turn to fall in love

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

listened to the game, read a whole book. game over, can't focus long enough to get through a few pages. i'm sure this means nothing.

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

sports announcing is such a specific brand of ridiculous, i love it

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

announcer: he swings and misses a lot other announcer: mhmm announcer: but when he hits it, he hits it

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*snip snip* get off my sand 🦀 @cauthons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i don't know, man, the power of literature, i guess

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